COLLAGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collagen mean? 

• COLLAGEN (noun)
  The noun COLLAGEN has 1 sense:

1. a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling

  Familiarity information: COLLAGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLAGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("collagen" is a kind of...):

albuminoid; scleroprotein (a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye)

Holonyms ("collagen" is a substance of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

connective tissue (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)

cartilage; gristle (tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults)

sinew; tendon (a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment)

Derivation:

collagenic; collagenous (relating to or consisting of collagen)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes neutrophil collagenase protein, is involved in the regulation of matrix remodeling via the degradation of fibrillar collagens (types I, II and III).

(MMP8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in proteolysis of collagen.

(MMP13 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Connective tissue cells which secrete an extracellular matrix rich in collagen and other macromolecules.

(Murine Fibroblasts, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This polypeptide is comprised of the amino terminal portions of fibrillar collagen, which are not part of the triple helical structure.

(N-Telopeptide, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the proteolysis of fibrillar collagen.

(Neutrophil Collagenase, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes interstitial collagenase protein, is involved in the breakdown of the extracellular matrix via the degradation of interstitial collagens (types I, II and III).

(MMP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A term referring to conventional osteosarcomas which do not have a dominant matrix pattern and contain a mixture of osteoid matrix in combination with chondroid matrix and/or collagen fibers.

(Mixed Type Osteosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet is conducted mainly on the basis of the so-called ‘stable isotopes’ of carbon and nitrogen, which are present in the collagen of human bones.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

A congenital mesoblastic nephroma characterized by the presence of interlacing fascicles of fibroblastic cells, low mitotic activity, and collagen formation.

(Classic Congenital Mesoblastic Nephroma, NCI Thesaurus)

The behavior of this subtype of fibromyxoid sarcoma is identical to low grade fibromyxoid sarcoma with giant collagen rosettes.

(Classical Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)